It remains to be seen longer communities and individuals in Canada however, if and how rural residents are stall in their accessibility, adoption and effective responding to this improvement and what use of the Internet, the less competitive they may opportunities may arise. [...] The Rural and Small Town Canada Analysis Bulletin is an occasional publication of the Agriculture Division of Statistics Canada. [...] They profitable urban and long-distance services in confirm that an urban-rural digital divide persists pursuit of the policy goal of universal access to an with the odds of using the Internet being almost acceptable level of telephone and ‘wireline’ data one and a half times greater for an urban resident services2. [...] The CIUS replaced the Household Internet Use Survey (HIUS), and more closely conforms to international standards by, for example, focusing on the use of the Internet by individuals, as compared to whether the household had an Internet connection. [...] The dependent variable is binary, reflecting an individual’s use versus no use of the Internet from any location.4 Table 1 presents the percentage of adult Canadians 18 years of age and older who used the Internet for personal and non- business reasons from any location during 2005 by the seven independent factors examined in the study.